literati

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These days, the online literati despises Shriver as a matter of principle.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 31, 2026

On recent travels, she taught in Paris at a New York University summer school program, mingled with New York City’s glittery literati and gave readings around the world.

From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2024

What was supporting the grand mansions and the literati in England in the middle of the 19th century?

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2023

In the world of literature, for example, authors who are “othered” outside of the elite literati typically are boxed into othering themselves just to parlay their creativity into a career.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 24, 2023

Thereupon the literati, thunderstruck and full of fear, left the father, and went out of the chapel.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 29 of 55 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Various